If we require more convincing examples, we have the despotism of Cromwell in England after such terrible revolutions, and that of Napoleon in France after the republic.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

We stopped to rest and take our noonday meal near a small clump of trees on the borders of a wide stream, which we were afterwards to pass.
— from The Young Llanero: A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by William Henry Giles Kingston

Sir Dugald is supposed to have survived the Revolution, as traditions of no very distant date represent him as cruising about in that country, very old, very deaf, and very full of interminable stories about the immortal Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the North, and the bulwark of the Protestant Faith.
— from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott

The true republicans at Paris were striving courageously to save the Romans and their own national honour; and on their efforts depended the one hope of safety.
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King